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Blokpoel, M., Dingemanse, M., Kachergis, G., Bögels, S., Drijvers, L., Eijk, L., Ernestus, M., De Haas, N., Holler, J., Levinson, S. C., Lui, R., Milivojevic, B., Neville, D., Ozyurek, A., Rasenberg, M., Schriefers, H., Trujillo, J. P., Winner, T., Toni, I., & Van Rooij, I. (2018). Ambiguity helps higher-order pragmatic reasoners communicate. Talk presented at the 14th biannual conference of the German Society for Cognitive Science, GK (KOGWIS 2018). Darmstadt, Germany. 2018-09-03 - 2018-09-06.
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Bögels, S., Milvojevic, B., De Haas, N., Döller, C., Rasenberg, M., Ozyurek, A., Dingemanse, M., Eijk, L., Ernestus, M., Schriefers, H., Blokpoel, M., Van Rooij, I., Levinson, S. C., & Toni, I. (2018). Creating shared conceptual representations. Poster presented at the 10th Dubrovnik Conference on Cognitive Science, Dubrovnik, Croatia.
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Byun, K.-S., De Vos, C., Roberts, S. G., & Levinson, S. C. (2018). Interactive sequences modulate the selection of expressive forms in cross-signing. Talk presented at the 12th International Conference on the Evolution of Language: (EVOLANG XII). Toruń, Poland. 2018-04-15 - 2018-04-19.
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Casillas, M., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2018). Acquiring a typologically rare phonological contrast in Yélî Dnye. Poster presented at the Nijmegen Lectures 2018, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Garrido Rodriguez, G., Huettig, F., Norcliffe, E., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2018). Participant assignment to thematic roles in Tzeltal: Eye tracking evidence from sentence comprehension in a verb-initial language. Talk presented at Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing (AMLaP 2018). Berlin, Germany. 2018-09-06 - 2018-09-08.
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Levinson, S. C. (2018). Interactional foundations of language: The Interaction Engine hypothesis [invited talk]. Talk presented at the JASS conference. Tokyo, Japan. 2018-03-08.
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Levinson, S. C. (2018). Spatial cognition, empathy and language evolution [invited lecture by PSJ (Pragmatics Society of Japan)]. Talk presented at the Consortium of University in Kyoto (a.k.a. Campus Plaza Kyoto). Kyoto, Japan. 2018-03-15.
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Levinson, S. C., & Bögels, S. (2018). Seeing the unseen: Discovering the cognitive processes underlying conversation. Talk presented at the 5th International Conference of Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2018). Loughborough, UK. 2018-07-11 - 2018-07-15.
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Levinson, S. C. (2018). Where it all begins - interactive language use as a key to insights at different time scales [invited talk]. Talk presented at CoEDL Fest 2018. Melbourne, Australia. 2018-02-05 - 2018-02-08.
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Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2012). Cultural differences and universals in interaction. Talk presented at the 111th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. 2012-11-14 - 2012-11-18.
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Gisladottir, R. S., Chwilla, D., Schriefers, H., & Levinson, S. C. (2012). Speech act recognition in conversation: Experimental evidence. Poster presented at the 34th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), Sapporo, Japan.
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Levinson, S. C. (2012). Connections across modalities in interaction. Talk presented at the Workshop on Modalities in Interaction, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2012-10-04.
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Levinson, S. C. (2012). Introduction to linguistic relativity. Talk presented at the workshop Relations in Relativity: New Perspectives on Language and Thought. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2012-05-09 - 2012-05-11.
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Levinson, S. C. (2012). Re–centering the study of language on its communicational foundations [Keynote lecture]. Talk presented at the 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, King's college. London. 2012-07-10 - 2012-07-12.
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Recent work in semantic and syntactic typology reinforces the idea that most of the structure of languages and especially the patterned variation across them is cultural rather than innate. This leaves somewhat unexplained why humans have languages of a kind that other species don’t. The explanation, I’ll argue, is that there is a rich underlying universal infrastructure of communicational abilities that must fundamentally affect the way languages are organized. I’ll review two aspects of this infrastructure: turn-taking and speech act coding and explore how this communication perspective might have substantial consequences for how we think about language structure. -
Levinson, S. C. (2012). The role of genetic and cultural processes in language. Talk presented at the Ernst-Strungmann Forum on Cultural Evolution. Frankfurt, Germany. 2012-05-27 - 2012-06-02.
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This paper begins from the observation that human communication systems are unique in the animal world in varying on every level of form and meaning across social groups. There are some 7000 languages, each differing in sound systems, syntax, word formation and meaning distinctions. New information about the range of diversity and its historical origins has undercut the view that language diversity is tightly constrained by “universal grammar” or a language-specialized faculty or mental module. Instead languages seem rather to be historical accretions of finely honed practices, the product of cultural evolution and diversification over millennia. -
Levinson, S. C. (2012). Words from other worlds. Talk presented at the Workshop on the 60th birthday of Prof. Gunter Senft at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics. Nijmegen, The Netherlands. 2012-08-30.
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Norcliffe, E., Konopka, A. E., Brown, P., & Levinson, S. C. (2012). Linguistic structure and planning scope in language production: Evidence from Tzeltal. Talk presented at the Interactional Foundations of Language Workshop. Schloss Ringberg, Germany. 2012-11.
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